I need to add a note here. Partitioning failed on my first attempt. I don't know why. I should have added that I'm dual-booting with Vista Home Premium, sp1, one of the three cheap versions of that system. It performs a sort of shadowing operation on a hidden drive, but that's unimportant. The next day, I ran Windows disk defragmenter, and then tried to install v. 8.04 once more. This time, there was no problem with partitioning, and Ubuntu seems to have installed well. Thanks, and I'm sorry for giving such little help. Yrs, J. Wagner
I need to add a note here. Partitioning failed on my first attempt. I don't know why. I should have added that I'm dual-booting with Vista Home Premium, sp1, one of the three cheap versions of that system. It performs a sort of shadowing operation on a hidden drive, but that's unimportant. The next day, I ran Windows disk defragmenter, and then tried to install v. 8.04 once more. This time, there was no problem with partitioning, and Ubuntu seems to have installed well. Thanks, and I'm sorry for giving such little help. Yrs, J. Wagner